Over the past year, POV has brought together visionary filmmakers and inventive technologists to “re-imagine the documentary for web” in a single weekend. And now that the fourth edition of POV Hackathon has concluded — you can get a glimpse of the process in this social media recap — we’re excited to share the prototypes from the five teams that participated, and give you the opportunity not only to explore them, but also to learn more about how the team’s created the prototypes under an impossible deadline, including a technology list and source code.

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POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 films to public television audiences across the country. POV films are known for their intimacy, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness, putting a human face on contemporary social issues.